Ecosystem Marketplace’s State of the VCM 2023 indicated that credits from projects with at least one co-benefit certification had a 78% price premium compared to projects without any co-benefit certification. Looking exclusively at Verra’s VCS, the largest project standard, showed that credits from these projects with co-benefits had a 92% premium in 2022, compared to a 69% premium in 2021.
Category: Industry Observations
How – and Why – Impact Inside Uses Real-Time Project Data in Storytelling
Reliance on static reports and delayed audits creates project risk and skepticism among project investors and others who crave concrete evidence that projects are delivering. For such stakeholders, use of real-time data promises a much more transparent view..
How we use AI to make quality project delivery easier
The Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) has challenges to overcome if it is to rapidly scale. This necessitates providing proponents and stakeholders with the best tools to help raise the bar for consistently high quality delivery of NbS projects…
What is today’s VCM saying it wants in a Carbon Offset Project?
By Chris McLaren Introduction In previous blog posts, we’ve presented evidence that higher quality projects tend to command higher credit prices on the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM), and that the market is projected to grow at least 25%..
What is the true potential value of the voluntary carbon market? And what will it take to get there?
How can the VCM’s legitimate firms and projects credibly signal their integrity and establish an unassailable level of trust?
Carbon Project Fraud and the Need for Better Project Management Solutions
In September we shared our thoughts following C-Quest Capital’s troubled cookstove initiative. Just this last week, we also read Matt Levine’s analysis on Bloomberg Law to CQC’s fraudulent claims and the inherently opaque and challenging nature of the..
Lessons from C-Quest Capital’s Troubled Cookstove Initiative
While the cookstove project funded by C-Quest Capital represented a now-well-known way to address deforestation and smoke pollution in Mozambique, problems recently uncovered by the Washington Post underscore the importance of establishing a robust project performance measurement plan..
Beyond Carbon: Measuring & Verifying Co-Benefits in Nature-Based Solutions
The world of carbon offsetting has moved beyond simply reducing emissions. Now, buyers increasingly seek out projects that not only sequester carbon, but also deliver measurable co-benefits.
New Report from Ecosystem Marketplace Highlights Importance of Project Co-Benefits in Attracting Demand, Higher Prices
New research published by Ecosystem Marketplace indicates that project co-benefits, which are additional environmental and social benefits beyond carbon sequestration, are driving higher credit prices.
The Path Not Traveled: Doing the Hard Work to Guide Quality
To truly demonstrate quality, nature-based project proponents and their stakeholders need a way to design good projects and to show the full story of their good projects using objective, transparent data.